Chapter 4: Collaboration

Chapter 4 opens with a visit to a middle school where students bring their own computing devices. They bring a wide range of devices but easily manage collaboration anyway. Collaboration is a crucial skill our students will need during the rest of their education and well beyond. Teachers can support student collaboration and model the process by effectively collaborating with one another through a variety of digital means. Sharing digital resources makes the transition to 1:1 easier and improves the variety of materials we can give our students. Students can collaborate digitally and face to face in a variety of ways as well. Collaborative preparation, froduction, feedback and presentation are all included with examples and sugggestions of possible tools for each. The chapter wraps up with some suggestions for managing digital collaborations from ground rules to self evaluation, and information about accessing options for global collaboration.